A 1996 film, the sequel to the The Crow, written by David S. Goyer and directed by Tim Pope.

Instead of Eric Draven the indie rock guitarist and his fiancee Shelly who are murdered after Shelly protests tenant eviction in the wrong neighborhood, we have Ashe Corven the motorcycle mechanic and his son Danny, who are murdered after Danny accidentally causes them to witness a gangland killing in the wrong neighborhood. Instead of Devil's Night in Detroit we have All Saint's Day in Los Angeles. Instead of a gang of interestingly named and dressed street thugs called Tin-Tin, Fun Boy, Skank and Top Dollar, we have a gang of interestingly named and drssed street thugs called Spider Monkey, Nemo, Kali and Curve. Instead of archvillain crime lord Top Dollar and consort-with-mystic-knowledge Myca, we have archvillain crime lord Judah and consort-with-mystic-knowledge Sibyl. Instead of... oh, never mind. Sarah from the first film is in this one though, as an adult, now played by Mia Kirshner.

Blind Seer: Sybil became so tormented by her visions that she gouged her own eyes out. It didn't help.

Broken Bird: The adult Sarah, which is sad given that the first film ended on a hopeful note for her character.

Continuity Nod: Numerous ones to the first film. Sarah still owns Gabriel the cat, has Eric's old Fool mask, and wears Shelley's wedding ring. She also picks up a stray girl off the streets and gets her some food, just as Officer Albrecht did for her when she was young.

Dystopia Justifies the Means: Judah Earl is convinced that he has visited Hell in the past and liked what he saw. He takes control of Los Angeles and tries to recreate his vision on the entire city, flooding it with dangerous drugs and forcing the people to live in a rundown place filled with vices and in fear of him. He kills one of his dealers for objecting that the amount of addicts who die is hurting their profits, suggesting that he prefers further corruption over money.

Eye Scream: The baddies attack Noah at his workplace and try to torture him into revealing where Sarah is, using what implements they find lying around. Noah works in a tattoo parlor. Nemo also gets this with Ashe pushing his eyes in.

The Ferryman: Invoked by Ashe when he informs the mortally wounded Curve that people used to place coins in the mouths of corpses so they could pay the ferryman who took them across the Styx. He enacts the ritual on Curve.

Parental Abandonment: Danny's drug-addicted mother left the scene shortly after he was born. It is implied that Darla either died from drug use or abandoned Sarah sometime after the first film.

Pragmatic Villainy: One of Judah's underlings destroyed a large batch of Judah's drugs because it was killing off the people who used it. However, the guy spun the bad drugs as being bad for business, rather than being morally repugnant. Judah kills him with the bad drugs for his trouble.

Shower of Angst: Sarah takes one at the start of the film, after waking up from a nightmare. It combines Fanservice (naked Mia Kirshner) with plot information (Sarah has self-harming scars and several large tattoos, suggesting that things haven't gone well for her since the end of the first film).

Twenty Minutes into the Future: Word of God states that this is the film's setting. It is reflected in the fact that an adult Sarah is a character in the film and, when you look closely, in the production and costume design.

Viewers Are Morons: Pleasingly averted. In earlier drafts of the script Ashe was a teenager and Danny was his kid brother. It was ultimately decided that fans of The Crow were, after all, emotionally mature enough to empathise with an adult losing a child, and that the presumed target demographic of the film (ie teenage boys) did not need a protagonist to be just like them in order to relate.

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